Categories: just-life
Date: 06 January 2006 15:24:00
(a) Visual Aids
(i) Field glasses, telescopes and other visual aids may be used for spotting.
(ii) Prescription spectacles or shooting specticals, provided they are fitted with the same lenses normally worn and sunglasses may be used. The glass of the non-sightly eye may be fully covered or taped, or an eye-patch may be used.
(iii) No visual aid may be fitted with microhole lenses, or similar divices, nor marked in any way which can assist in aiming.
I'm known for being slightly competitive..... (ok, read very competitive) but one of the small flaws in my life is that because I wear glasses my scope isn't in focus. When I went to get my new glasses last month the lovely Opticians suggested that for only thirty pounds they could make me up a pair of glasses where the prescription is right to bring the scope into clarity.
However, the question is whether this breaks the bit in section (ii) where it says: "provided they are fitted with the same lenses normally worn" because, though I am very competitive, I am also 'straight as a die' and will flatly refuse not to follow the rules..... it's just in this case. I'm not too sure what the rules quite mean. Lens construction (ie - made out of plastic) or lens prescription. With one I can get these new glasses, with the other I can't. But the rub is, even if I wasn't allowed them, it would certainly not be picked up, unless you got to the highest echelons of the sport.
While this is mainly a house joke I do, I know some people have caught me muttering under my breath; another reason not to...... this is simply a parody of the "Reasons to shop at Morrisons" but is in fact reasons not to get married.
There are a whole load of them, and like Morrisons, they don't actually seem to be listed (though I might compile my list oneday). They range from Kids (please don't hurt me parents) or having to remember all these extra birthdays and annerviersaries. Think about it, marry into a large family and the number of dates you'd have to remember could easilly double, if not treble. If you marry one of the younger siblings of this family, there's a good chance you'd have sister-in-law husband's family to have to remember. Don't forget having to remember which branch of the family isn't talking to another, "cause of what they said about our Nevile"....... do you really want to walk into that.....???
But, as an example of how I'm possibly growing up, I came up with a reason to get married last night....... Reason #17 (I'm sure there are other more important reasons..... like Love and stuff.... but I've not come up with those.... well, apart from Love (#1)) but, Reason #17 - a warm bed when it's cold. Safer than an electric blanket, bigger than a hot water bottle.
Ok, maybe I haven't really grown up........ ;o)